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Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, November seven, twenty eighteen, Seaton fourteen, Episode
Speaker 1: number seventy five. Welcome to another edition of The Break,
Speaker 1: live from the s WBC Mortgage studios at the Star.
Speaker 1: We appreciate you guys joining us today. We're ready to
Speaker 1: talk to some Cowboys football with you for the next hour.
Speaker 1: Dave has his assessment of the Philadelphia Eagle offense that'll
Speaker 1: be coming up here in just a little while. Before
Speaker 1: we get to that, though, I want to talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about Connor Williams and the offensive line. Find
Speaker 1: out yesterday the Connor Williams has a knee injury. It
Speaker 1: sounds like there's a possibility he could need a scope.
Speaker 1: Was that updated at all? He's getting the scope. He
Speaker 1: is getting the scope, so he is going to have
Speaker 1: to have authroscopic surgery on his knee. How long does
Speaker 1: that mean he's out? What are we looking at here?
Speaker 1: That's the conversation that we had about Randy Gregory with
Speaker 1: like you said, it's not surgery. That's what you said
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago. So I don't know they're going
Speaker 1: at Jason Garrett said he thinks it's going to be
Speaker 1: short term. That's crazy to me. I mean, I thought
Speaker 1: Randy was a short term. Well they still they still
Speaker 1: you're right, but short term as a meaning he doesn't
Speaker 1: need to go on I r M. I think they're
Speaker 1: hopeful he can be back in two to three weeks.
Speaker 1: They'll have to wait and see. Randy Gregory's not back
Speaker 1: and he had his the week heading into the bye.
Speaker 1: So yesterday you were talking about and maybe stepping in
Speaker 1: and there you go. It sounds like it's going to
Speaker 1: be a competition this week between Xavier Suaphilo and Adam Redmond. Okay,
Speaker 1: so let me ask you this there. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: there are kind of three scenarios that you can go
Speaker 1: with this. And I like to always do this when
Speaker 1: we ask these kinds of questions. I want you to
Speaker 1: first tell me what you think the Cowboys are going
Speaker 1: to do and then I want you to tell me
Speaker 1: if you think that's the right thing to do. What
Speaker 1: they're gonna do is next man up. They're gonna say, well,
Speaker 1: you practice here and you'll probably be a next man up.
Speaker 1: This guy. I mean, I would imagine it's something like that,
Speaker 1: Sue a Philo or Redman, because you've been playing guard
Speaker 1: and why I moved two spots to play guard. But
Speaker 1: the reason why I think you do move two spots
Speaker 1: because Fletcher Cox is sitting over there and he's pretty
Speaker 1: good and somebody needs to be able to block him. Okay,
Speaker 1: he is playing, right, So he's playing and he's really
Speaker 1: really really good. He is really good, and okay, so
Speaker 1: there are there are a couple of different options here.
Speaker 1: I think the first option you mentioned you got sue
Speaker 1: a Philo. You can just throw him in, right. I
Speaker 1: want to well, I want to hear Nick's opinion, like,
Speaker 1: what do you think they should do? I think they
Speaker 1: should put Lyle Collins over there to play guard because
Speaker 1: I don't think Lyle's playing very well at tackle and
Speaker 1: I think and you guys talked about it on the
Speaker 1: show the other night. Brian said it on The Happy Hour,
Speaker 1: which was not happy It wasn't a happy hour at all.
Speaker 1: But it's the same approach that the Saints have always
Speaker 1: done with. Get the guards set and let Drew Brees
Speaker 1: get the middle in the center take care of that,
Speaker 1: and that's where the pocket collapses. And I think maybe
Speaker 1: they do need a little bit more beef inside, so
Speaker 1: healthy knees or not for Connor Williams, I think I
Speaker 1: think they need to consider having somebody better on the inside.
Speaker 1: So I like, this is a good opportunity for me
Speaker 1: to go, Lyle call its inside. Okay, So so that
Speaker 1: would be one option, Lyle Collins inside and you put
Speaker 1: camera Fleming, I would assume at right tackle sure, all right.
Speaker 1: The other option would be you just plug in Xavier
Speaker 1: to a Philo. The other option could be used plug
Speaker 1: in Adam Redman or the other option, this is the
Speaker 1: fourth option you could take Joe Looney, move him over
Speaker 1: to guard, put Adam Adam Redman in as your center.
Speaker 1: So all those being considered, Nick, you say you'd rather
Speaker 1: see Lyle move in and put camera Fleming out there. Dave,
Speaker 1: which way would you go? I think? And to be fair,
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys are going to consider or all
Speaker 1: of that. Jason Garrett kind of hinted at that. I
Speaker 1: think obviously they would prefer that one of these two
Speaker 1: guys can just step into the guard spot and play
Speaker 1: well enough that it's not a big deal. But I mean,
Speaker 1: if it looks atrocious in practice, I don't think that
Speaker 1: they're opposed to moving Looney. And if it really looks atrocious,
Speaker 1: I think they could consider putting Lyle. But I would
Speaker 1: guess with three options, like moving Lyle feels like a
Speaker 1: break glass in case of emergency type of thing, and
Speaker 1: I'd be kind of surprised if it got to that point.
Speaker 1: So I assume that it'll be Redmond or Suaphilo. That's
Speaker 1: my guess. What do you think is the right way?
Speaker 1: Probably that I hear what Nick saying, But is Lyle
Speaker 1: Collins just gonna step into the guard for the first
Speaker 1: time in a year and a half, no, like two
Speaker 1: plus years, because he didn't even play in twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: because of his injury. He literally he hasn't played left
Speaker 1: guard since the twenty fifteen season. You're gonna ask him
Speaker 1: to do that on the fly and play against a
Speaker 1: guy like Fletcher Cox. Yeah, and when you have guys
Speaker 1: the other options, especially when you have guys that are
Speaker 1: able to play at that position or have played at
Speaker 1: that position before. You you have the ability to do that,
Speaker 1: even though, yes, some things don't go as planned and
Speaker 1: something's just happening out of nowhere. But I think that
Speaker 1: when the opportunity presents itself in a scenario like this,
Speaker 1: why not go for it? And then Jason Garry kind
Speaker 1: of say something about then having some talks about it,
Speaker 1: that that we're going to discuss it. It sound like
Speaker 1: he did, but it also sounds like it was kind
Speaker 1: of a as Dave said, kind of they don't want
Speaker 1: to ask in case of murder, They don't really want
Speaker 1: to say that. They think of him as a tackle.
Speaker 1: That's what those are the words that he thought of
Speaker 1: him as a guard for like two years. Of course
Speaker 1: he's gonna say that because he's a tackle now and
Speaker 1: they may not move, so of course he's gonna a
Speaker 1: bid abide. Is that the right word? A word? Yeah? Wow,
Speaker 1: geez it works all right, It's gonna bide to that.
Speaker 1: There you go. Yeah. I mean, football teams always think like, well,
Speaker 1: we see him as a guard, but then when they
Speaker 1: change their mind, they see him as a tackle, and
Speaker 1: we're the dumb ones for questioning it, like that's the
Speaker 1: way that works. So, Alaron Jones was definitely a safe.
Speaker 1: Iron Jones is safety, and well now we see him
Speaker 1: as a corner, and you were dumb. You were dumb
Speaker 1: until we agreed with you, and now it makes sense.
Speaker 1: Um point. But I I don't know. I don't. Lyle
Speaker 1: Collins hasn't he has not had a good season, and
Speaker 1: so is shifting. Is he gonna play better at guard
Speaker 1: magically after two years off? And I y'all already both
Speaker 1: y'all already both said yes, So clearly I know how
Speaker 1: you feel. Um, I don't. I don't know. I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't really, I don't think I buy it. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's going to play like like at an
Speaker 1: all pro level or even at a at a really
Speaker 1: really good level. But I do think that when when
Speaker 1: I look at my options and think, okay, Cameron Fleming
Speaker 1: started in the Super Bowl, played against the Eagles, I'd
Speaker 1: be the reason they let him go. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly how he played in that game. Game.
Speaker 1: I know that the Brady was running for his life,
Speaker 1: but I do you know he started that game? He
Speaker 1: faced the Eagles. I like him out there to tackle.
Speaker 1: I like Lyle. I like that better than I think
Speaker 1: there there's I don't think you're wrong. Like I don't
Speaker 1: think they're gonna do it though, which is maybe why
Speaker 1: I'm not following you there. But I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: think you're wrong. Yeah. Um, I hate the fourth option.
Speaker 1: I hate that one because that's that's a two persona
Speaker 1: that's moving two spots. And well, you're talking about moving
Speaker 1: two spots, all right, I know, let me finish. That's
Speaker 1: moving two spots and it includes Adam Redman and Looney
Speaker 1: in the middle with Fletcher Cox there. I hate that.
Speaker 1: I like you're saying you don't want two new spots
Speaker 1: in the middle. I don't. I don't want two new spots.
Speaker 1: If if it's two guys that are that are playing
Speaker 1: that are that are really inexperience, then I think Lyle
Speaker 1: Collins and Cameron Fleming have more experience that I know
Speaker 1: they have more experience playing those positions than Looney and Redman.
Speaker 1: I'm really not trying to put Redman on the field.
Speaker 1: I will say this, it's if especially how it's been
Speaker 1: the offensive line right now, Yeah, it's been a mess.
Speaker 1: If that happens, then it will then you will have
Speaker 1: been very right in the sense of I really think
Speaker 1: if Redmond or Stu a Philo even looks like competent,
Speaker 1: I think that's what they'll roll with. And so if
Speaker 1: they do something like move ly l it's because those
Speaker 1: guys are horrendous and like, how horrendous can you even
Speaker 1: be in a non contact practice? You know, so they
Speaker 1: would have to really be bad for them to be
Speaker 1: that non contact because David Irving's getting carted off through
Speaker 1: you know, it's high ankle. Again. That's the problem being conservative.
Speaker 1: That's the problem that they've had so far. Yes, yes, you,
Speaker 1: I mean you're fighting for your job right now, you're
Speaker 1: fighting for your life pretty much, because yeah, it is
Speaker 1: what it is. But it's like, why be conservative? So
Speaker 1: if I'm the cowboys and that's my first thought, start
Speaker 1: going with your second thought, what would I not do?
Speaker 1: Skip over that the next what would I not do?
Speaker 1: And do that instead? And I might just start working
Speaker 1: on deep balls if you did that. What I what
Speaker 1: I like about what you guys are saying, really more
Speaker 1: than anything else, is if you start thinking about it
Speaker 1: from the standpoint of who are your best five, and
Speaker 1: you hear that a lot when you start talking about
Speaker 1: offensive lines, who are your best five that I think
Speaker 1: Cameron Fleming is probably gonna be among that group before
Speaker 1: you would put Adam Redman or before you would put Sulphilo.
Speaker 1: So if that's the case and you're trying to get
Speaker 1: your best five on the field, then it may have
Speaker 1: to mean you move a Lyle Collins. Now I agree
Speaker 1: with you, Dave. They're not gonna do it. I think
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, they prefer to have
Speaker 1: one thing change versus half two things change, especially when
Speaker 1: they've prepared and we talk about it a lot, and
Speaker 1: we give them a lot of flak for this in
Speaker 1: the past. When they do it, you get a guy
Speaker 1: prepared all offseason and you get him into the season
Speaker 1: to play a particular position, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you say, and now you're gonna do something else. He
Speaker 1: has been preparing. I'm talking about Lyle. He has been
Speaker 1: preparing as a tackle. He has been playing as a tackle.
Speaker 1: It's been two years since he played guard. Thinking that
Speaker 1: all of a sudden in a week he can in
Speaker 1: a short week, by the way he can now make
Speaker 1: the transition over to tackle. I'm sorry, he's been playing guard.
Speaker 1: He's been playing tackle. That's to be able to move
Speaker 1: over to card. That's a lot to expect him to
Speaker 1: be able to do again when you're going up against
Speaker 1: Fletcher Cocks. Today's today's practice as a walkthrough because of
Speaker 1: the short weeks, so you're really even you're saying, figure
Speaker 1: this out in two practices and you're going up against
Speaker 1: one of the best defensive tackles in the league. I'm
Speaker 1: about to say something really cynical, like even for me,
Speaker 1: but can't be too cynical for you. You're right, But
Speaker 1: the way, the way the Cowboys would do this is
Speaker 1: role with what they got. You know, keep Lyle where
Speaker 1: he is and Fletcher Cox will eat dak alive and
Speaker 1: then they'll make the switch for Atlanta, like that's what
Speaker 1: they'll do and be like, well, we think Lyle can
Speaker 1: play guard now hopefully after Fletcher Hopefully this is not
Speaker 1: Atlanta and they let let him get sacked nine times
Speaker 1: whatever number of times it was before they would do it.
Speaker 1: If you get into the game and it starts to
Speaker 1: be a problem, flip it. I mean, it's just that
Speaker 1: you can't let that happen. An entire game like they did.
Speaker 1: You can't even go into the game like that. Okay,
Speaker 1: Connor Williams is supposed to be better than your backups, right,
Speaker 1: you would think, you would think, Although I did bring
Speaker 1: up the question last night on our show on the
Speaker 1: Happy Hour of because Connor is still a rookie and
Speaker 1: because he's still making rookie mistakes like he hasn't had
Speaker 1: there have been a lot of games where there have
Speaker 1: been moments where it's like, oh, what's what's Connor doing?
Speaker 1: So with a guy like let's say Sue a Philo
Speaker 1: or with Redman, they have a little more experience than
Speaker 1: he does, could you possibly get better play from them?
Speaker 1: Not saying that they will ever be as good as
Speaker 1: what Connor is expected to be in future years, but
Speaker 1: because he's still a rookie and still doesn't have the
Speaker 1: size and the strength and the experience that you really
Speaker 1: want him to have in order to be really successful,
Speaker 1: are you actually getting maybe a little better player in
Speaker 1: that spot than what you have right now with Connor?
Speaker 1: That's gonna be their hope, and that's why I think
Speaker 1: they'll probably stick stick with it. You know, the next
Speaker 1: man up, they'll say, and at least try sue Philo's
Speaker 1: you know, he's been in the league for five years.
Speaker 1: He started a couple dozen games in Houston, whatever it was.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was a second round pick. He's a
Speaker 1: guy that that the Texans tried to you know, they
Speaker 1: expected him to be a starter. So he's got the experience,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure that's what their mindset will be, that
Speaker 1: maybe this guy's not that big of a drop off
Speaker 1: from a rookie. That makes sense. I mean, they're going
Speaker 1: to sell it like he was a second round pick. Um,
Speaker 1: but he was also a cut. You know, he was cut.
Speaker 1: I mean, Chas Green was a third round pick and
Speaker 1: he's not in the league. Ry he is in the league.
Speaker 1: He's every pig. Didn't turn out the way you expected,
Speaker 1: you can, they're gonna have a little reunion between him
Speaker 1: and Dez. I don't even think about that. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: what else was? Oh? I was gonna say either way,
Speaker 1: I bet you, I bet you that there won't be
Speaker 1: an inactive offensive lineman this week. They can't afford to
Speaker 1: have one, can't. I bet there will be Hunter. Oh,
Speaker 1: you're right, I'm okay. Among the healthy guys. All right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take our first break. When we come back,
Speaker 1: Dave's gonna give us a scoutter and port tell us
Speaker 1: a little bit about these Eagles and their offense, how
Speaker 1: they move the ball, how they score. We'll talk about
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Speaker 1: slash football. Back to the Break, Welcome back. It is
Speaker 1: the second segment of The Break live from the SWBC
Speaker 1: Mortgate studios at the Star talking Cowboys football. Get into
Speaker 1: a little Eagles talk, Dave. Yeah, get a little study
Speaker 1: there on the Eagles offense. Yeah, what'd you find. I'm
Speaker 1: not as much as I would have liked. This short
Speaker 1: week is messing me all up. But I did get
Speaker 1: a chance to watch a couple of games, and the
Speaker 1: big thing for me is their offensive line shocking. We
Speaker 1: just spent the whole first second talking about the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I think the Eagles are going through their own pains,
Speaker 1: mainly because of injuries. Remember Jason Peters missed most of
Speaker 1: last season. He's been in and out of the lineup
Speaker 1: with his own problems. Lane Johnson is another guy who's
Speaker 1: missed some games, and this line has has suffered for it.
Speaker 1: The Eagles are not a whole lot better than the
Speaker 1: Cowboys in terms of protection. They've allowed twenty six sacks
Speaker 1: this season. I think it's hindered their offense. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: you know, if you pay attention to just looking around
Speaker 1: the league, like there's been a lot of talk about
Speaker 1: you know, five alarm fire, Like, oh my god, the Eagles,
Speaker 1: they're they're terrible. I didn't see that. Um, their line,
Speaker 1: their line needs some work. They're not scoring as many
Speaker 1: points as you would assume. But this this still looks
Speaker 1: like the same talented group from last year. Like again,
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz, people are like, oh, he doesn't look the
Speaker 1: same since his injury. I didn't see that. Um, he's
Speaker 1: completing seventy one percent. He has thirteen touchdowns and two
Speaker 1: interceptions in the sixth starts since he came back in
Speaker 1: Week three. I think pretty healthy number. Yeah. No, he's
Speaker 1: he's playing really well and I'm sure he's still getting
Speaker 1: acclimated after the injury. He doesn't run as much, he's
Speaker 1: only running like three times per game. But he's still
Speaker 1: an athletic guy too, Like he can pick up yards
Speaker 1: with his feed. He's big, he's super and and he's
Speaker 1: he's surprisingly athletic for like the bag prototypical. You know,
Speaker 1: he looks like a statue quarterback, but he's not. In
Speaker 1: this last game against Jacksonville, third and third and three,
Speaker 1: he tries to throw for the first down and the
Speaker 1: ball gets batted back in his face. He adjust catches
Speaker 1: it and runs forward and dives for the first down
Speaker 1: like he can be the closest to Cam Newton in
Speaker 1: the NFL. When you talk size, I mean, obviously I
Speaker 1: think he throws much better than Cam. But when you're
Speaker 1: talking size and when you're talking athleticism, is he the
Speaker 1: closest that there is to Cam in the league. That
Speaker 1: feels fair to me. Trying my best to think about
Speaker 1: other quarterbacks in the league, I just don't think anybody
Speaker 1: else has that kind of size. I can't see a
Speaker 1: big dude. I don't think he's not as athletic as Cam,
Speaker 1: but he's still nobody's as Cam. But maybe the closest
Speaker 1: approximation I would think to Cam good. But uh, A
Speaker 1: lot of this personnel looks the same. Zach Ertz. I
Speaker 1: get why. I get why Jason Witten gave him his jersey.
Speaker 1: I think he probably honestly is the best tight end
Speaker 1: in football right now, maybe better than Kelsey. I think
Speaker 1: he's more well rounded. I think he's a better blocker
Speaker 1: and can do all that tight that type of stuff.
Speaker 1: He's got sixty one catches for six hundred eighty yards
Speaker 1: right now. He's easily you know, he's their primary look.
Speaker 1: And then you have Alshon, Jeffrey, Nelson Agilore, and of
Speaker 1: course a guy who I haven't seen with the Eagles yet,
Speaker 1: Golden Tate Goldie. I'm interested to see how that goes.
Speaker 1: I think I read some Eagles writers said that they
Speaker 1: think Tate's gonna play primarily slot, which means Nelson Agilore
Speaker 1: probably moves outside a little bit. And then the biggest
Speaker 1: difference with this team right now is, you know they
Speaker 1: had Jagi and La Garrett Blunt last year. Those guys
Speaker 1: are gone. They do it more so by committee than
Speaker 1: any team we've seen. They got like five guys. Wendel
Speaker 1: Smallwood is listed as the starter. They also have Corey
Speaker 1: Clement and then Josh Adams, who is a Notre Dame
Speaker 1: running back, Big six three two, twenty dude and fun times.
Speaker 1: Darren Sprowles is coming back this week. He'll be back.
Speaker 1: It's been out since week one. I think we all
Speaker 1: know what he can do and what he has done
Speaker 1: to this team. So they got they got four guys,
Speaker 1: they're going to use them all. Um. I think Smallwood
Speaker 1: and Adams are their best runners. And then Darren Sprowles
Speaker 1: is one of the best receiving running backs of the
Speaker 1: last twenty years. So are those offensive lineman you mentioned
Speaker 1: are they all still healthy? Are they healthy at this
Speaker 1: point or is a situation where they're still kind of
Speaker 1: gimpy not really playing? Lane Johnson is expected to play,
Speaker 1: but he's been limited. He's he's gimpy. And then lay
Speaker 1: did he play the last game? No? Um? And then
Speaker 1: Jay's I'm sorry, no he did. I'm sorry he did. Um.
Speaker 1: And then Jason Peters he's got like a quad thing
Speaker 1: and a biceps thing and so he's not completely healthy,
Speaker 1: but he's still Jason Peters did he play the last game? Yes?
Speaker 1: So both of them played the last game. Did just
Speaker 1: both hurt? Yeah? And the line has suffered for it.
Speaker 1: But they're still talented guys, sat, I mean, so, um,
Speaker 1: they've had their issues. But this offense looks similar to
Speaker 1: me to what we saw last year. You know, people
Speaker 1: call him, oh sorry, people call him a college offense,
Speaker 1: like there's a you know, kind of like not as
Speaker 1: not as not as weird, for lack of a better word,
Speaker 1: than Houston with the stuff they do with you know,
Speaker 1: when Kiki qts moving all around, but there's a lot
Speaker 1: of wide receiver motion. Agalore moves from the backfield into
Speaker 1: the slot and vice versa. They do you know, the
Speaker 1: jet action, play action. There's usually some sort of play
Speaker 1: action with either a running back or a wide receiver
Speaker 1: on the vast majority of their plays and wins. His
Speaker 1: athleticism plays into that. It's it's the new wave in
Speaker 1: the NFL. I feel like we talk about it more
Speaker 1: often than not, But I think the reports of their
Speaker 1: demise have been exaggerated a little bit. They still look
Speaker 1: plenty scary to me. When teams have stopped them. What
Speaker 1: have they done? It's gotten to wins. I mean twenty
Speaker 1: six sacks and you see it. Going back to Nick's
Speaker 1: point from the beginning of the show, teams collapse the
Speaker 1: pocket on him and I don't. He doesn't. Like I said,
Speaker 1: he's still athletic, but he doesn't want to move. I
Speaker 1: think I think that's in the back of his head
Speaker 1: as well. It probably should be. I mean, his season
Speaker 1: was ended on a scramble play. Uh and so he
Speaker 1: takes sacks, you can affect him in the pocket. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's as willing to extend plays as he
Speaker 1: used to be. Uh, and you throw him off. That's
Speaker 1: when teams have limited them that I've seen really important.
Speaker 1: David Irving can play this week. If he can, if
Speaker 1: he comes back from an ankle injury. We'll see if
Speaker 1: he practices today or what he was doing. I don't
Speaker 1: he wasn't out there again, It's yeah, this is a way, yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I just feel like and I know that
Speaker 1: that Um Ross played well, Daniel Ross played well, but
Speaker 1: you got to I mean that they have good center,
Speaker 1: you've you've have great center. You've got to be able
Speaker 1: to affect them in the pocket like that. So I
Speaker 1: think it's it's important if somehow he can play more
Speaker 1: so than Gregory. Gregory might play, But I mean, I
Speaker 1: feel like you've got to have some defensive tackle play
Speaker 1: there because he's a guy that that has the ability
Speaker 1: extend plays. Though because of his size, even when you're
Speaker 1: trying you get to him, it's hard to bring him down.
Speaker 1: I've seen him make a lot of throws with guys
Speaker 1: hanging off of him, right, Do you in a situation
Speaker 1: like that, do you think maybe the Cowboys kind of
Speaker 1: back off a little bit from blitzing and try to
Speaker 1: just keep as many guys in coverage as possible to
Speaker 1: make it hard for him to make that throw. Or
Speaker 1: do you just kind of go at him and get
Speaker 1: really aggressive with going after him even though that you know,
Speaker 1: there may be some plays where you get exposed a
Speaker 1: little bit because he extends to play because you can't
Speaker 1: get him down. Those backs catch the ball, though, don't they. Yes,
Speaker 1: they do well, Yes, it makes it hard to know
Speaker 1: they do. It's it's gonna be interesting because we haven't
Speaker 1: really seen it. Smallwood and Clement catch the ball. They've
Speaker 1: got twenty nine total receptions this year. But Sprowls is
Speaker 1: back and that's what he does, that's all, that's what
Speaker 1: he does best. Yeah, and so I think you're definitely
Speaker 1: going to see an element of that which I don't
Speaker 1: like the idea of bringing a lot of pressure because
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here, like they don't, you know, this team
Speaker 1: doesn't have that like Burner, like Deshaun Jackson, who's just
Speaker 1: gonna get behind you and go to the house. But
Speaker 1: Alshan Jeffrey's huge. I mean, you know, you talk about
Speaker 1: traveling Byron Jones. I don't mind the thought of Byron
Speaker 1: Jones following him around because he's gonna he's a contested
Speaker 1: ball phenom. You add Golden Tate. We already saw what
Speaker 1: Golden Tate can do to this defense. Two chunk play touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Somebody's gotta cover Zach Ertz. I think Layton vander esh
Speaker 1: and Jalen Smith are athletic guys who can handle that,
Speaker 1: but Ertz as a different animal. So the more pressure
Speaker 1: you're bringing, the less guys you have around to deal
Speaker 1: with all this stuff. That kind of scares me, to
Speaker 1: be honest, But I honestly am wondering though if with
Speaker 1: the guys you currently have in your secondary, I don't
Speaker 1: know if I really trust the fact that in zone
Speaker 1: covers they're going to be able to really affect the
Speaker 1: passing games. I'm almost like, hey, you just have to
Speaker 1: take your chances and be a lot more aggressive, because
Speaker 1: I certainly don't like to match up of Anthony Brown's
Speaker 1: slot against Golden Tate. If you if you're gonna try
Speaker 1: to man up, or if you're gonna try to, you know,
Speaker 1: try to take these guys one on one. I just
Speaker 1: I think it's you probably are in a better position
Speaker 1: is if you give them less time and send some pression.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you have to do that the whole game,
Speaker 1: but I do think they got to find their spots
Speaker 1: here to be aggressive and really go after him and
Speaker 1: not let him sit back there and figure out where
Speaker 1: he wants to throw the ball. I take that back
Speaker 1: what I said about Gregory. I do need him to
Speaker 1: play because what that does that puts Tyron Crawford back
Speaker 1: in the middle, and that's where he needs to be
Speaker 1: rushing from. And then you got better rushers if you
Speaker 1: can get Crawford inside and Gregory on the outside. He's
Speaker 1: way more disruptive in the middle than eating outside. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's again pushing, you know, not so much concerned
Speaker 1: about coming around the edge as disrupting the pocket, making
Speaker 1: Wins have to move, making him uncomfortable because he's athletic
Speaker 1: enough and they do enough stuff with play action that
Speaker 1: I think Wins can limit the effect that like a
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence has on this game just through his own
Speaker 1: natural The linebackers did not play well last game. I mean,
Speaker 1: that was not the good game for vanderash or Jalen Smith.
Speaker 1: They might have had a lot of tackles, but they
Speaker 1: have probably had a lot of miss tackles too, and
Speaker 1: so just moments when they couldn't get out of the trash, right, yea.
Speaker 1: So on the eagle talk whatever that's called the bird chat? Yeh,
Speaker 1: eggles hour Eagles hour, Eagles eggles eggles our eggles Yeah,
Speaker 1: huh Eagles. I don't know. I haven't really hung out
Speaker 1: with one lately, so I don't know. Is that not
Speaker 1: how they sound? It doesn't seem right. Do you think
Speaker 1: they sound? Oh? No, but that's another type of bird.
Speaker 1: Get your birds ride there. The stats, the stats say
Speaker 1: that this isn't an impressive offense. Uh, their middle of
Speaker 1: the pack. They don't run the ball as well as
Speaker 1: they did last year without a GII. They're not scoring now.
Speaker 1: It's part of that when you look in at season
Speaker 1: stats for them, though. It it factors in the games
Speaker 1: that WinCE wasn't playing though, right, how many games he
Speaker 1: did WinCE against the Holy missed two? So I don't
Speaker 1: know that. So they have what six games he's played,
Speaker 1: he's started six started six hasn't been great in those
Speaker 1: six I mean he had and they've had their issues
Speaker 1: like that's I mean, you know, you I follow I
Speaker 1: follow media for everybody in the league. I follow a
Speaker 1: ton of Philly media, and they they talk about this
Speaker 1: team like they're like, what the hell is wrong with
Speaker 1: this offense? Which they're four and four. They've already lost
Speaker 1: more games than they did all of last seasons, so
Speaker 1: I get it. But the talent here is still plenty
Speaker 1: impressive to me. And also they're coming off a couple
Speaker 1: of games where they've played better than they had. I mean,
Speaker 1: last year they could just flat out running games like
Speaker 1: they would get the situations where they could just saddle
Speaker 1: up and run the ball, and they can't. I don't
Speaker 1: think they can do do not. I do not think
Speaker 1: they're gonna just line up and bowl this team over that,
Speaker 1: you know, the way a giy and blunted last year.
Speaker 1: You know, we thought that the Cowboys had a long
Speaker 1: break on a Monday night game after a buye Is
Speaker 1: this right? Then? The Eagles play Thursday night against the Giants. No,
Speaker 1: well they actually the Eagles missing you skipped. Well, the
Speaker 1: Eagles went to London and beat Jacksonville. That was their
Speaker 1: last game. Okay, the action, which it's thrilled pretty long break.
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll get that's but I'm I know there
Speaker 1: are Cowboys fans that are pissed because the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: on a short week playing an Eagles team that's been
Speaker 1: on its by, which doesn't seem like you're want to
Speaker 1: do that with division teams especially. It doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: a great scheduling call by the NFL. But like somebody
Speaker 1: gets screwed by the schedule every year, like it's play
Speaker 1: this week Atlanta is playing. I don't know, buy are
Speaker 1: they No, they're not on a buy it's gonna say,
Speaker 1: because that would saw them in the picks, But I
Speaker 1: don't remember. That would be three games their favorite though,
Speaker 1: I think I don't know. I think not. That's three
Speaker 1: straight games that Cowboys would face. Somebody coming on and buy. No, No,
Speaker 1: they're I'm pretty sure they're playing this week, gotcha. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure they're playing to say, all right, we're gonna
Speaker 1: take our final break when we come back. I want
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Speaker 1: of one Dez Bryant. It sounds like in New Orleans.
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Speaker 1: better behind than anybody. I don't know whatever. You're not
Speaker 1: gonna get hu speaking of playing from behind, Tommy John. Yea, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, wow, what's going on? Yeah? All right, here
Speaker 1: we go. Um, I did want to get you guys.
Speaker 1: Opinions on des Bryant. It sounds like he has well
Speaker 1: we know he went to work out for the for
Speaker 1: the Saints, and it sounds like they are in the
Speaker 1: process of doing the deal. It sounds like it's pretty
Speaker 1: much everything but signed at this point, I think it
Speaker 1: might even be signed, might even be signed. He is
Speaker 1: now going to be a new Orleans Saints wide receiver,
Speaker 1: which means that the Cowboys on November twenty ninth will
Speaker 1: face Dez Bryant here at at and T Stadium. What
Speaker 1: are your thoughts. I'm I'm super excited to see what
Speaker 1: it looks like. This is. You know, we've been wondering
Speaker 1: what was going to happen with this for a long time. UM,
Speaker 1: even going back as far as April, I think all
Speaker 1: of us said that this is the type of situation
Speaker 1: that he could thrive in. Aaron green Bay and Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers was the other one. I did not know this.
Speaker 1: You know, the Saints drafted they have Ted Ginn and
Speaker 1: they drafted a kid named Trey Kwan. He got hurt
Speaker 1: and this kid, Trey Kwan Smith out of UCF has
Speaker 1: kind of taken over as the Z receiver. But I
Speaker 1: did not realize. UM, no receiver on the Saints roster
Speaker 1: other than Mike Thomas has more than twelve catches this year.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, he's really really good. But there's
Speaker 1: there's snaps to go around, is what I'm trying to say, like,
Speaker 1: there's you know, there's not this guy that you can't
Speaker 1: take off the field. So like I would imagine Dez
Speaker 1: is probably their number two receiver right away, really, I
Speaker 1: mean not this weekend. I would guess because he you know,
Speaker 1: he hasn't practiced yet. Assumption is that he can't be
Speaker 1: in shape enough to really play a huge amount of snaps.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't think, well that, but that's I guess. That's
Speaker 1: my point is if if they're none of their other
Speaker 1: receivers have more than twelve catches, like they can cycle
Speaker 1: him in just as easily as anybody else. No, I'm
Speaker 1: saying more just from his heath, like is he is
Speaker 1: he in enough? Is he in good enough shape to
Speaker 1: do it? I'm not saying that necessarily taking anybody off
Speaker 1: the field, as much as just when you've been sitting
Speaker 1: at home, can you be in the kind of shape
Speaker 1: that you need to be in to play a significant
Speaker 1: enough with the whole fitness your face? I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't buy Instagram a whole lot on his I bet you,
Speaker 1: Like I said, I doubt he plays. I think the
Speaker 1: Saints play the Bengals this weekend. I doubt he plays
Speaker 1: this weekend, but the game after that, he'll be ready
Speaker 1: for Cowboys. He'll definitely be ready for Cowboy. He'll be
Speaker 1: ready to play twenty five to forty snaps by the
Speaker 1: next game. Yeah, I agree with that. I can see
Speaker 1: that it's gonna be fascinating, Like, is Dez done? Is
Speaker 1: he not done? How well can he play? How well
Speaker 1: do the Saints need him to play in that offense
Speaker 1: anyway with all the weapons that they have. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: fascinated to see it as a football fan, as a
Speaker 1: Dez fan, as a Cowboys writer. You know, I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be fascinating to watch. I want to see
Speaker 1: what it looks like. The great part of it is
Speaker 1: Desk can go there, and Desk can be a one
Speaker 1: trick pony, and if he does it well, it will
Speaker 1: make their team infinitely better. Because if you got a
Speaker 1: guy like Michael Thomas that right now teams try to
Speaker 1: double him, he still gets open and he still catches
Speaker 1: the ball. They have a running game with two really
Speaker 1: good running backs. And now if you can just add
Speaker 1: a dimension with Dez Bryant that gives you something down
Speaker 1: the field with those fifty fifty balls, that creates a
Speaker 1: whole different dynamic that teams now just have to respect him.
Speaker 1: It's what Teddy Gain usually provides for them. You just
Speaker 1: gotta respect him out there on the outside. And if
Speaker 1: you got to respect him, that just helps. A running
Speaker 1: game helps Michael Thomas like all the way around, it's
Speaker 1: a that's a great fit for them. I've only, like
Speaker 1: I said, they're only two teams I thought were great fits.
Speaker 1: I think this is one of them. Maybe three New
Speaker 1: England too. In New England, I think you got to
Speaker 1: be a much more disciplined route runner. I look at
Speaker 1: a guy like Chad Johnson when he went there, he
Speaker 1: burned out quick. Yeah that's fair, you know, it does.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sorry, I don't know. I'd rather just
Speaker 1: not say a whole lot about it because I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know what he's doing. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: not about the Saints. Is maybe it's a good fit
Speaker 1: for the Saints, but it's a thousand percent good fit
Speaker 1: for Dez, which is what he's looking for. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: I think it made it. He made it pretty clear
Speaker 1: that this was all about him this time around, was
Speaker 1: getting this deal. I don't think he was signing with
Speaker 1: anybody that didn't play the Cowboys, and I don't think
Speaker 1: he was signing with anyone that that was didn't have
Speaker 1: a good quarterback and a good offense. So this is quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: Yeah right, this is about him and maybe a chance
Speaker 1: to go get a ring. What I what I really
Speaker 1: wonder more about it is Sean Payton's future in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: This is what makes me kind of wonder more about him.
Speaker 1: I think he's going all in for this year. I
Speaker 1: don't know if he's I don't know this, but I
Speaker 1: just don't think he'll be the coach for the Saints
Speaker 1: next year. So I think he's doing this like man,
Speaker 1: this is just let's just put everything we have to
Speaker 1: go win this thing right now. And that's kind of
Speaker 1: my first thought about him going to get Dez is
Speaker 1: for that region. But for Deaz, it's just like, hey,
Speaker 1: I want to I want to show the Cowboys what
Speaker 1: I can do, but I'm not going to anybody just
Speaker 1: to play and run around and struggle like we're gonna,
Speaker 1: I mean, on top of it to eight and one
Speaker 1: and then we'll talk. Um. It's interesting to note too,
Speaker 1: is you know we said all along Daz was holding
Speaker 1: out for a one year deal so he could test
Speaker 1: free agency, and we were swelling like, why hasn't he signed?
Speaker 1: Why is he waiting? Maybe he's waiting because nobody was
Speaker 1: willing to give him that until you know, at this
Speaker 1: point in the season, they're like, all right, it's only
Speaker 1: there's only seven games left anyway, so yeah, well sign.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a one year deal. Yeah, I believe that's
Speaker 1: what they're saying. I don't know how much money, but
Speaker 1: it's only one year. So eight games. Make your best
Speaker 1: impression and see what I see what they don't. I
Speaker 1: don't think they have anything to lose with this. No,
Speaker 1: I don't think in half a season he can disrupt
Speaker 1: their locker room. I don't think he can cost problems
Speaker 1: in half a season that breaks up their chemistry. Like,
Speaker 1: I just think at the end of the day, this
Speaker 1: is a no lose for them. I'll be interested. I don't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right, it's only eight games. It's probably not enough
Speaker 1: time to break up their locker room. But like Michael
Speaker 1: Thomas loves him some him too, he is you know,
Speaker 1: do you think maybe the influence could possibly create some
Speaker 1: or just I mean on the road is yeah, that's you.
Speaker 1: I saw somebody already made a meme about that where
Speaker 1: it was Mike Thomas on the phone and then they
Speaker 1: had Dez Bryant at the telethon that we did for
Speaker 1: Harvey relief last year. Yeah, so what you're doing. I
Speaker 1: think for eight games, I think they can co exist.
Speaker 1: But those are those are two really big egos that
Speaker 1: are sharing the same room. Now. I'm really curious to
Speaker 1: see and excited and anxious to seem to see him
Speaker 1: play three Sorry, go talk, what do you want? Go Amber,
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see him play, to see him play
Speaker 1: because I want not only to see how he performs,
Speaker 1: but if he does well, that's gonna give me another
Speaker 1: whole different idea of the Cowboys offense and what this
Speaker 1: team is in the coaching and even Dak Prescott, because
Speaker 1: if I start seeing him succeed although when you started
Speaker 1: remembering the place, I'm not even gonna look at him,
Speaker 1: Nick freaking rude. Come on, you know why, I just
Speaker 1: forget it. I don't even know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Let's let's go. I'm saying, if he succeeds where he's playing,
Speaker 1: that's gonna give me a whole different outlook of this offense.
Speaker 1: It's just gonna add on to what just Literally, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have had a narrative since February, and it already
Speaker 1: doesn't look that great because they had to go get
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper, like their whole we don't need a number
Speaker 1: one receiver thing doesn't look great right now. Wow, if
Speaker 1: Daz goes to another offense and plays great, they're gonna
Speaker 1: look even worse. Right, I was going to agree with
Speaker 1: that because Des took eight or nine years still still
Speaker 1: hasn't figured out the Cowboys offense. So let's be clear.
Speaker 1: He could not play the slot. He could not be
Speaker 1: a slot receiver because he really didn't ever understand and
Speaker 1: figure that out. So if you're right, if he goes
Speaker 1: to New Orleans, goes there and they figure out something
Speaker 1: for him, now he's not making sixteen million a year,
Speaker 1: so you can justify his role in a different way.
Speaker 1: He can be a one trick pony or whatever you said.
Speaker 1: He couldn't have really, he couldn't have done that here
Speaker 1: with the contract they gave him. But if he goes
Speaker 1: and picks this up rather quickly, I think it'll go
Speaker 1: it'll say a lot to how much teaching and coaching
Speaker 1: there was involved with what he was doing here. But
Speaker 1: let's also be clear, I think one of the things,
Speaker 1: and I know I said it, I assume I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure you guys agreed and said the same things that
Speaker 1: when it comes to Dez, like, part of the reason
Speaker 1: the Cowboys let him go is not necess serily because
Speaker 1: he's a worst player. It's because with the current construction
Speaker 1: of the team, he didn't fit the quarterback and the
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator couldn't figure out how to use him the
Speaker 1: right way for whatever reason, whether it's because he couldn't
Speaker 1: get him the ball the right way, but because they
Speaker 1: couldn't get him the ball enough, because of the philosophy
Speaker 1: of the offense, whatever the case might have been, they
Speaker 1: couldn't figure out how to use him the best way.
Speaker 1: That didn't necessarily mean he wasn't still a capable player.
Speaker 1: What we're about to find out right now is is
Speaker 1: he still a capable player? And if he is, that
Speaker 1: still doesn't mean the Cowboys should have kept him, because
Speaker 1: it means the Cowboys maybe still just couldn't use him
Speaker 1: in that way. Right well, I think that still goes
Speaker 1: back to the whole coaching thing again, and again, yeah,
Speaker 1: some pieces might not work with while you're trying to do.
Speaker 1: But if that's what you have and he's still part
Speaker 1: of the better pieces in your puzzle, you still as
Speaker 1: a coach find a way to make it work and
Speaker 1: figure out how to get him moving. But I just
Speaker 1: think that either way, well unless he does horrible over
Speaker 1: there with the same and then all the way round
Speaker 1: of it. Kay, alright, that was where right, which totally
Speaker 1: totally possible. Yeah, I mean, let this can go a
Speaker 1: lot of different way. It could, It could, but I
Speaker 1: just I think it's it's a he held on. He
Speaker 1: had the patience, I guess, to hold on for ten weeks,
Speaker 1: and I think he put himself in as good of
Speaker 1: a position as he possibly could. Let's real quick, before
Speaker 1: we in the show, Let's get a tall call from
Speaker 1: Tony in Colorado. Tony, what up? Just taking the call.
Speaker 1: Definitely enjoy the show, Thank you, And it's glad to
Speaker 1: hear nick Uh make the point about Crawford being inside
Speaker 1: on the defensive line. I talked to Brian brought us
Speaker 1: about this before, and he always disagreed. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: Crawford cannot bend and get down like a Gregory or
Speaker 1: Lawrence or Armstrong or when we had Tapper. Um. I
Speaker 1: think having a big guy like that should be disruptive
Speaker 1: and push back the U, the center and the guards
Speaker 1: on the offensive line. And I just have a question,
Speaker 1: since I don't have the insight intel like you guys do,
Speaker 1: has there ever been any talk about bringing Romo back
Speaker 1: as an offensive coordinator if Lennonhan gets, you know, displaced
Speaker 1: at the end of the year. Okay, thanks for the call.
Speaker 1: I'll answer that that part Tony Romo is enjoying being
Speaker 1: like away from football and when you're a coordinator, like
Speaker 1: you're you're here for like fifteen sixteen hours a day
Speaker 1: every day, long hours and stuff. I think there was
Speaker 1: an Instagram picture of him on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon,
Speaker 1: like on his couch, like sitting there watching You're not
Speaker 1: doing that as a coordinator. You're not playing golf. I
Speaker 1: just don't want to work that hard. I can't think
Speaker 1: of a single reason why he would do that. I
Speaker 1: don't unless he just loved to actually the challenge of
Speaker 1: actually going and being a coordinator. But I don't see
Speaker 1: why he would want to do that from certainly from
Speaker 1: the standpoint and of quality of life. He ever did, though.
Speaker 1: I was told this, if he ever decided to be
Speaker 1: a coach, he would be a defensive coordinator. There you go,
Speaker 1: he would not be an offensive coordinator to be a
Speaker 1: defensive cord. Think about how he calls the game. He's
Speaker 1: telling you what's gonna happen offensively, what are they thinking
Speaker 1: right now? That makes him a great defensive coordinator to
Speaker 1: be able to combat right The story the story that
Speaker 1: I've heard, and Dez would play Madden religiously. He plays
Speaker 1: it all the time, tells everybody how good he is.
Speaker 1: He played Romo, who doesn't really play it. Romo smoked
Speaker 1: him because on defense he knew what to player. And
Speaker 1: this is Madden. I mean, this is just like, you know,
Speaker 1: fake football or whatever. I just think you're you're seeing
Speaker 1: the flip side of it. You know. John Gruden was
Speaker 1: worshiped as like this god of football when he was
Speaker 1: on TV talking about it and doing commercials. The reality
Speaker 1: is not as fun, Yeah, it's I mean, you're working
Speaker 1: ten times harder, doesn't mean your team's gonna be good
Speaker 1: and people don't like you if you're not winning. Tony
Speaker 1: Romo gets to work. I mean, what does he work
Speaker 1: during football season? Like forty hours a week, Like he's
Speaker 1: got to watch the Sweet Gig, He's got to watch
Speaker 1: tape of the teams he's covering. He's got to go
Speaker 1: in on Friday and Saturday and do interviews with the
Speaker 1: guys and then called the game. And then he spends
Speaker 1: the rest of the week at home with his family
Speaker 1: and he gets to do Corona and whatever and Sketcher's commercials,
Speaker 1: and people think he's the freaking man because his football expertise.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to hate on him, but like it's
Speaker 1: not put to the test in the sense that he's
Speaker 1: not winning and losing games. It's like the best job
Speaker 1: in the world, and I just I can't imagine that
Speaker 1: he would leave that for all of the work. So no,
Speaker 1: I don't see that happening. And if it does happen,
Speaker 1: it won't be any time in the near Fie. It
Speaker 1: would have to be because he just wants that challenge,
Speaker 1: Like it would just have to be a life challenge,
Speaker 1: like hey, I want to go do this to see
Speaker 1: how good I can be, And that would be the
Speaker 1: only reason that it would make sense he left football
Speaker 1: and got put to the front of the line in
Speaker 1: the broadcasting world. I mean, which doesn't happen, very awful,
Speaker 1: especially for both those guys. That to happen, and it
Speaker 1: does happen if you play for the Cowboy, can happen
Speaker 1: if you play for the Camp. Real quick about Crawford though,
Speaker 1: like yes, I said that about him being in the inside,
Speaker 1: but remember they don't pass every single play. Those defensive
Speaker 1: ends for all is you know the bending and you
Speaker 1: know that you need to do to get off the edge.
Speaker 1: You also need to stop the run. So that's what
Speaker 1: makes to Marcus Lawrence made. It's what made DeMarcus Ware
Speaker 1: so good that they could stop the run. So that's
Speaker 1: what Crawford gives you when he plays ends, his ability
Speaker 1: to stop the run. So it's not just about getting
Speaker 1: off the edge. They need those those defensive vents. Like
Speaker 1: you said, Taco, Doran's arm strong. Those guys they need
Speaker 1: to Gregory and they need to stop the run as well.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, appreciate you joining us back tomorrow. We'll
Speaker 1: have more talk for you. We're definitely gonna talk about
Speaker 1: the Eagles defense. I'll be a lot to talk about there.
Speaker 1: Dave will give us his breakdown till then for Nick,
Speaker 1: even Dave helm and Amber Garcia. I'm Derek Eagles and
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